This product by Chess.com has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Lex Fridman, Maurice Ashley. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-07-30 and the most recent from 2021-02-15. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
Jason Calacanis: Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship | Lex Fridman Podcast #161
“i've been playing chess and trying to get that going again after watching queen's gambit and i got chess.com”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Jason Calacanis: Angel investor and entrepreneur, early backer of Uber, Robinhood, and Calm. Host of This Week in Startups and co-host of the All-In Podcast. Jason Calacanis breaks down GameStop, Robinhood, and why entrepreneurs who suffer to change the world are modern samurai.
Grandmaster Maurice Ashley — The Path and Strategies of World-Class Mastery | The Tim Ferriss Show
“You have chess.com which has resources up the wazoo. Very inexpensive to get whether it's puzzles, whether it's videos, instructional videos”— Maurice Ashley
The guest here is Maurice Ashley: Maurice Ashley is the first African-American International Grandmaster in chess history, a three-time national-championship coach, author, ESPN commentator, and speaker. Born in Jamaica and raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn, he was inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame in 2016. Grandmaster Maurice Ashley traces his path from Brooklyn chess hustles to history-making mastery, plus lessons on focus, teaching, and lifelong reinvention.
